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Why Would I Want To Do This?
When you open or access a file on your Mac, it tries to be smart and helpful and choose what it thinks is the most appropriate program to use with that file type. In most cases the default should be okay and acceptable but … [Read More...]

Why Would I Want To Do This?
One of my favorite features of the Mac OS X is the way it handles multiple desktops and manages the apps you have made full screen by placing them in their own desktop. Much like you can cycle through your running applications, … [Read More...]

Why Would I Want To Know This?
This guide is inspired by a reader question as well as a recent discussion I had about why I use the application Alfred. The question came to me as "I am using Spotlight to find files and while it will let me open them, I … [Read More...]

Why Would I Want To Do This?
There is no shortage of ways to launch an application on your Mac. While you can add items to your dock for clicking or dig through your Applications folder, there is no substitute for a quick keyboard shortcut, a custom key … [Read More...]

Why Would I Want To Do This?
If you use your computer to do multiple things then chances are you are going to have different programs running to help you accomplish all that you need to do. A browser for Internet, maybe an email client, an RSS Reader, Word … [Read More...]

Why Would I Want To Do This?
If you frequently receive text from others for use in your work or projects you probably find that it is often messy, containing extra spaces, misplaced caps, all caps or even no caps. Also, if you grab it from a web page or a … [Read More...]

Why Would I Want To Do This?
If you are a user of both the Alfred Launcher application and the Parallels app to run Windows (or other Operating System) Applications, you may find that you accidentally open these applications from Alfred search results. This … [Read More...]

Why Would I Want To Do This?
Your Mac's Finder is a window to the underlying files and folders that hold all the data that is stored on your Mac. It's always running and easily accessible from your Dock. In fact it's your Finder that is active if you aren't … [Read More...]

Zen Opinions

I launched Zen and Mac only a week or so ago and am really still in a soft launch stage, filling in content, connecting systems, tweaking categories and design. We've gotten some publicity though, nice folks have pointed people here and I am grateful to them. … [Read More...]